André Hebuterne (1894-1992) Meaux

André Hébuterne (1894-1992) the market in Meaux Oil on canvas 65x92cm André Hébuterne, born September 3, 1894 in Meaux; died in Paris on June 30, 1992. In the mid-1910s, the family moved to Paris, he met Henri-Gabriel Ibels and worked at the Académie Ranson under the direction of Sérusier. He occupies a studio in Montparnasse. Called to the front in 1914, and a year after his return from the Great War, his sister Jeanne Hébuterne*, Modigliani's companion to whom he had introduced her, committed suicide. He then spent a year in Rome and exhibited regularly at the salons. des Indépendants, at the Salon d'Automne, and that of the Tuileries. The Villa Abd-el-Tif scholarship was awarded to him in 1930. During his stay in Algiers, he traveled and painted in the south and in Morocco. He decided to stay in Algeria, settled in Orant until 1934, worked throughout the region and spent his winters in the Sahara. Between 1933 and 1934, he exhibited landscapes several times in Oran, which he also presented at the Salon d'Automne in 1933. In 1934, he moved to Corsica for 9 years, where he painted works for his clientele of Algiers amateurs. In 1937, he took part in the international exhibition in Paris, in the pavilion of Algeria. In 1937, the Druet Gallery hosted an exhibition of his Algerian works with those of Jean Launois, with whom he exhibited in Algiers. He returned several times to Algeria with Eugene Corneau between 1950 and 1960.